Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-11

JAMES BELLS large pianIng Ai~i az O,ils
Ill, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, $40. $50; Insurance, $500
The United States Attorney at Salt Lake
has commenced suit for the disfranchise-
ment and winding up of the Mormon Church.
A receiver was applied for. The case was
set for trial on September 10.
THE Gentle vote in Utah in the recent
elections was more satisfactory than any
previously polled
FIRE the other morning destroyed the
cabin of Philip Little, situated in Cali
fornia guleh, near Leadville, Col Two
sleeping babies We're burned to crisp.
The father had gone to his work and the
mother to a neighbours.
JOSIE HOLMES, confidential clerk of Har-
per. of the Fidelity Bank, Cincinnati, has
been released, supposed on the condition OF
promising to testify as to the inside work
ings of the defunct institution.
THE Ohio Democratic Central Committee
met at Columbus on the Sd. An executive
committee of twenty-one members was Sc
lected, with the following officers: Irving
Dangan, of jackson, chairman; j. A. Nor
ton. Seneca, vice chairman; j. &. New
conner, Delaware, secretary: g. w. Meeker,
Columbus, corresponding secretary, and J.
F. Sarber, Columbus, treasurer.
GEORGE W. NELLIs, JR-, arrived at San
Francisco on the Sd from New York, hav-
ing made the trip on bicycle. He started
NAV "a, but lost fifteen days by rough
weather, and he lost twenty-three pounds
in weight. He averaged fifty miles day.
He made the trip in the interest of sport
ing newspaper
FRANK HALL, a lawyer OF Kansas City,
who was visiting friends in Quincy, Ill,
recently, was drowned while bathing in
the river. The body was recovered and
sent to Kansas City.
THE Armstrong furniture factory and
other buildings were burned at Evansville,
Ind, recently. Loss, $3.50, 600; insurance,
100000.
THE Illinois Live Stock Commissioners
state that all danger from pleuro-pneumo-
MIA in Cook County has passed. They ask
Governor Oglesby to at once take measures
for the removal of the quarantine restric-
tions now in force in various States and
Territories against Illinois.
THE drought has been terrible in the vi
cinity of Centralia, Ill. Crops have been
nearly ruined and damage has been done
by fires.
AN Indian Territory special says that
Mayes has been chosen Chief of the Cher
okee Nation over Bunch by small major
ity. Joel B. Mayes is one-Quarter Cherokee
and he was Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Cherokee Nation for term of
years.
THE saw mill of John G.. Owen burned at
East Saginaw, Mich, recently. Loss, Sl37,
COO; insurance, $3.50
THE big wheat deal collapsed at San
Francisco on the Sd.
TWELVE men were killed by falling walls
of the burned st. Anthony elevator at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Bird. The men
were engaged in clearing away the debris
at the time.
HUGH NJ. BROOKS, alias Maxwell, the
convicted murderer of Preller at st. Louis,
has had stay of execution granted by
Justice Miller, of the United States Su-
preme Court The argument will come be-
fore the court in October.
THE two children OF Mrs. Almyra Wilson
were instantly killed and Mrs. Wilson her
self seriously injured by being run over by
a Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul engine at
the Wood street crossing, Chicago, on the
4th.
SEVEN cases of Texas fever are reported
among the cattle in the vicinity of Lenox,
Ill.
A BEER kettle in Rahr's brewery at Green
Bay, Wis, exploded the other night, scald-
ing seven men, six of whom died. The ket-
tie held seventy barrels of boiling water
which poured over the unfortunate men,
literally cooking their flesh.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has telegraphed President and Mrs. Cleye-
land an invitation to visit their city in the
fall.
CLOSE estimates as to losses inflicted on
the wheat clique by the collapse of the
San Francisco corner make them between
s., OOO, 900 and 50, 600 900, in addition to which
the Clique was holding and paying storage
on enormous quantities OF wheat.